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Sentence Examples He joined the Royal Navy aged 15 and was a colour sergeant in the 1st Battalion, Rhodesia Regiment. He spent two years in with the Royal Air Force in Rhodesia, where he specialised in venereology and rose to squadron leader. He also dealt with Southern Rhodesia, though it was still officially a self-governing colony. The southern section of Rhodesia was home to the Zulu-descended Matabeles, while the north was home to their traditional enemies, the Mashona. The alleged offences related to a failed property development scheme in Rhodesia. Until 1980, Rhodesia was an internally self-governing colony with its own legislature, civil service, armed forces, and police. I still have in my library the oppositionist pamphlets and Marxist analyses of the vexed land question in Rhodesia that I bought there when Ian Smith was premier. That is precisely why I sent a letter to the authorities of Southern Rhodesia inviting them to be represented here. He sought out the remnants of Siam in Thailand, and Rhodesia in Zimbabwe, and Leningrad in St. Petersburg. He was born in the country, which was a British colony called Northern Rhodesia at the time, but his parents were not. The United States supports the English and favors maintaining pressure on the leaders of the repressive policies in ex-Southern Rhodesia. Fischer was born in Rhodesia and doesn't need lectures about colonial over-reach. In colonial Rhodesia a handful of white settlers controlled the best land. I was born in Zimbabwe, then known as Rhodesia, and as a little girl I used to wonder why there were no black children at my school. When WWI broke out, young Harris enlisted as a bugler with the Rhodesia Regiment. We have not been subjected to the test of economic collapse which destroyed the Weimar Republic, or the civic disruption of having a Kenya or Rhodesia or Algeria at our doorstep. Other possibilities are East Africa, principally Rhodesia, and specifically the Zimbabwe region, where some think King Solomon's mines and metallurgical plants were located. South Africa also had designs on Southern Rhodesia. I had the honour of knowing President Félix Houphouët-Boigny when I was dealing with the issues of majority rule in Rhodesia, progress toward independence in Namibia, and majority rule in South Africa. Southern Africa, meanwhile, remained frozen in the past with an apartheid regime in South Africa, while Namibia, and the then Rhodesia were still in colonial regimes. Show More Sentences In the dark-days of war in Rhodesia in the 1970s, Peter began a series of practical experiments in fly control which resulted in an outpouring of ideas in water and sanitation management. A new war broke out,inspired and supported by the white governments of South Africa and Rhodesia,who were determined to destabilize their neighbours. London regarded this declaration as illegal, and applied sanctions and expelled Rhodesia from the sterling area. Australia, New Zealand and Rhodesia also chose ten shillings as the base unit of their new currency. In 1965, the conservative white minority government unilaterally declared independence as Rhodesia. Shortly after annexation, on 1 October 1923, the first constitution for the new Colony of Southern Rhodesia came into force. Smith declared Rhodesia a republic in 1970, following the results of a referendum the previous year, but this went unrecognised internationally. Commonwealth countries were called upon to rise to their finest hour against the double crises of Rhodesia and global poverty. The first veto by the US came in 1970, blocking General Assembly action in Southern Rhodesia. One of the minor annoyances of building a new nation on a foundation that denies elementary decency and justice is finding enough to sing about to rill an entire national anthem, so our hat must come off to little Rhodesia. His father Alec emigrated in 1927 to the then Northern Rhodesia, where he worked as a doctor, a politician, a lawyer and a newspaper publisher. Brought up on a cattle farm in Northern Rhodesia in a strict household headed by his father, a rancher. In 1961, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia. He served for seven years with the Universities' Mission to Central Africa at Mapanga in Northern Rhodesia. For the first time since South Africa and Rhodesia in the 1960s, encroachments on minority rights and war-instigated humanitarian tragedies were defined in reference to Chapter VII of the Charter. Great Britain is in a diplomatic chill with former Southern Rhodesia and Prime Minister Gordon Brown is categorically opposed to the presence of President Mugabe at the next African summit, threatening to boycott it. In 1980, Southern Rhodesia, Britain's last African colony, became the independent nation of Zimbabwe. On 1 June 1979, Muzorewa, the UANC head, became prime minister and the country's name was changed to Zimbabwe Rhodesia. On 12 June, the United States Senate voted to lift economic pressure on the former Rhodesia. Scouting in the former Rhodesia and Nyasaland started in 1909 when the first Boy Scout troop was registered. Show More Sentences Scouting grew quickly and in 1924 Rhodesia and Nyasaland sent a large contingent to the second World Scout Jamboree in Ermelunden, Denmark. The latter system was used in colonial Rhodesia for the 1962 and 1965 elections. Decolonisation issues were largely routine, and the Rhodesia and South African crises lay in the future. In our opinion the people of Rhodesia as a whole do not regard the proposals as acceptable as a basis for independence. The settlers rejected incorporation, and Southern Rhodesia was formally annexed by the United Kingdom that year. Nigeria became the leading African opponent of white-ruled regimes in South Africa, Namibia and Southern Rhodesia. In 1964 Nyasaland achieved self-government, and in the same year Northern Rhodesia became the independent state of Zambia. Aden, Burma, Ceylon, Dutch Guiana, Formosa, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Persia, Southern Rhodesia and Tanganyika. Grogan's next mission was to escort Lord Gray, the Administrator of Rhodesia, to Portuguese East Africa. Although the Queen dismissed him in a formal declaration, and the international community applied sanctions against Rhodesia, his regime survived for over a decade. Bambata is the type site for the Stillbay Culture in Rhodesia. There is a widespread belief that Brenda plays no part in politics. This is not entirely true. For instance, she has very strong feelings on Rhodesia. The British colonial administrators in Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, Uganda, Kenya, and Zanzibar cooperated to undermine the work of the organization. Southern Rhodesia in 1962 resembled South Africa in many ways. It warms up in Southern Rhodesia during the day but at places 4,000 or 5,000 ft above sea level it often freezes at night and in the early morning. The third article also takes a historical stance and discusses the Native Marriage Laws in Southern Rhodesia, especially among the Shona community. While multiracial democracy was finally introduced to Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, however, Southern Rhodesians of European ancestry continued to enjoy minority rule. During the 1880s and 1890s, Rhodes, with his privately owned British South Africa Company, occupied and annexed territories subsequently named after him, Rhodesia. He went on to serve in the Middle East and Persian Gulf and was serving in Kenya when Ian Smith made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Southern Rhodesia. However the black majorities in Rhodesia and South Africa were disenfranchised until 1980 in Rhodesia, which became Zimbabwe that year, and until 1994 in South Africa. Show More Sentences In Zimbabwe, former Rhodesia, president Robert Mugabe has, starting in the 1990s, targeted white African farmers and forcibly seized their property. In 1972 and 1976 a large number of African countries threatened the IOC with a boycott to force them to ban South Africa and Rhodesia, because of their segregationist regimes. Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence from Britain in 1965 as a result of the British government's insistence on majority rule as a condition for independence. British people who had emigrated to Rhodesia after the war, and were known there, half-affectionately, as pommies or chooms, exaggerated the severity of the climate back home. In this way he crossed red lines set by the major powers and the colonial powers, as well as by the white regime of Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate at the time. After joining the order, Sr Sarah spent a few years at the order's home in Surrey, before travelling in 1950 to what was then Northern Rhodesia, now known as Zambia. When it was still our former colony of Rhodesia, the country was known as the breadbasket of Africa exporting wheat and corn to its neighbours and beyond. In 1959, Rhodesia hosted the Central African Jamboree at Ruwa. These included Australia, Barbados, British West Africa, Cyprus, Fiji, the Irish Free State, Jamaica, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Ryder suffered from poor health in later life, and spent some time in South Africa and with his elder daughter Marjorie in Rhodesia, where she had emigrated. Examples from Classical Literature Let a large trading caravan start into the Congoland from Northern Rhodesia. Among the Ba-ila of Northern Rhodesia it is customary at funerals for the women to sing lewd songs. You know that the old ruins in Rhodesia, called Zimbabwe, were long believed to be Phoenician in origin. In 1980, Southern Rhodesia became independent as Zimbabwe, a multiracial nation under a system of majority rule. This land, together with Mashonaland, constitutes what is now known as Southern Rhodesia. If I persuade father to take me up to Rhodesia with him, will you come too? We soon realized that we had not sufficiently appreciated our blessings in Southern Rhodesia. In Southern Rhodesia we have a specimen of that very modern experiment, government by a commercial company. He, with a number of other boys, went to Southern Rhodesia to work on a farm. In 1893 came the first of the events that made Rhodesia a storm center. In 1890 he led Cecil John Rhodes' Pioneer Column into Rhodesia, seeing action in both Matabele rebellions. Apuleni's father had been working in a mine in Southern Rhodesia. We saw enough to prove that Rhodesia is an auriferous Country. I went up to Rhodesia, and of course I had the devil's luck. As to you, sir, I trust that a bright future awaits you in Rhodesia. I have met people from Rhodesia, and they dress quite ordinarily. What, in the name of fortune, is the good of going to Rhodesia? Afterwards I went into Rhodesia, and incidentally made money. Find more words! 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